Kaizen Certification MCQ Questions Answers

1. What are the key principles of all the Kaizen Models?

2. Which one is not a cost of quality?

3. Which one cannot be considered a waste?

4. When the performance of the organization is compared to organizations in the same industry but which cater to different markets other than the organization's, it is known as _____.

5. Which one is an intensive approach to carry out improvements in the process?

6. A Kanban is a label or a card which is affixed on a container of a stock or lot and carries a message attached to it regarding the requirements needed in the workplace

7. Which are three MU's that are reduced by Kaizen?

8. The various kinds of Kanban include:

9. Which one is not done by poka-yoke?

10. The Shewhart Cycle has been used in Lean, TQM (Total Quality Management) and _______________.

11. ________are used as a graphic tool to display continuous occurrence of data values.

12. __________helps to locate the wastes in the value chain.

13. Which Kaizen model is also described as 'medical science of machines'?

14. Which one is created in the following manner? 1.First, decide the importance of each criterion, assign numerical weights. 2.Then rate each option according to the intensity of the correlation with the criteria or according to how well it meets the criterion. 3. Finally, combine all ratings for a final ranking of the options numerically.

15. What is a Kaizen event?

16. Which tool shows the 'critical path' of the 'critical' tasks; those tasks that must be completed on time to maintain the project's deadline?

17. What does SOP stand for?

18. Which among the following tools is used for problem solving?

19. Which levels of Kaizen affects the entire manufacturing process?

20. What does the 80/20 principle state?

21. 'Poka Yoke' is the tools and methods used to prevent any defect during the production process.

22. _________ means to clear the work area.

23. Which one is not an element of standard work?

24. Just in Time Management believes in holding buffer stocks.

25. Which Kaizen model is also called Lean Production or Stockless production?

26. ________works well where short term changes and individual cultures need a modification.

27. Which are the two main functions of Kaizen that an organization has to perform apart from the other goals like removal of waste and quality management?

28. Which one is not an example of the appraisal cost?

29. Which one is not a part of the first stage in the implementation of Kaizen?

30. Which one is not a use of a Matrix diagram?

31. Who is referred to as the father of Just In Time Management?

32. Which are the features of a Lean enterprise?

33. Which one is also known as the hierarchy diagram?

34. How many wastes are identified by Lean?

35. The data that does not need to be communicated in a Visual Factory environment are:

36. Which one is an example of the prevention cost?

37. Process oriented thinking answers 'what' before 'how'.

38. Which technique is a means of organizing disjointed ideas?

39. Who allocates roles and responsibilities to the team members who carry out the Kaizen implementation?

40. A process decision program chart should be prepared before implementing any plan especially when:

41. Kaizen is a function which when done correctly, modifies the workplace, reduces the three MU'S namely Muda, Muri and Mura and adds value to each system.

42. What does Kanban mean?

43. Who introduced the concept of 'mass production'?

44. By whom was the word Lean coined?

45. Lean is made of a lot of 'Kaizens' put together.

46. A check sheet is a diagrammatic representation of the nature and the flow of work in a process.

47. Kaizen also amends and upgrades product quality, communications, production competence and employee holding.

48. Which one is not a horizontal line used in control charts?

49. ________is a process that is followed by understanding the Voice of the Customer (VOC).

50. Kaizen is a tool applied in all _______ systems.

51. Result oriented thinking is preferred in the West.

52. JIT manufacturing is best suited for regular and simple production systems because it is primarily a ___________ manufacturing process.

53. Who is the founder of Kaizen?

54. Which traditional Japanese methodology has Kaizen evolved from?

55. What is Takt Time?

56. Which technique was created by Japanese anthropologist Jiro Kawakita?

57. A guide acts as a link between the top management and the lower level employees.

58. Who is called the Father of Quality Control?

59. ________is a tool used for establishing a correlation between two sets of variables.

60. Which tool makes use of symbols?

61. When different departments within an organization are compared, it is referred to as ___________.